Slow checkouts with bzr 1.13 into shared repo.

[Jelmer Vernooij]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Matt Scarisbrick wrote:
> > Dear All,
>
> > I've just upgraded to bzr 1.13, running on Vista. I have a relatively
> > large project hosted on a remote server with numerous branches. On my
> > local machine I have a shared repository into which I checkout my trunk
> > branch. I then checkout other branches into this repository to work on.
> > Prior to bzr 1.13 these checkouts were extremely fast but now they're
> > really slow and bzr is downloading a lot of data for each one. Has
> > anyone else noticed this? Do I need to do something different in bzr
> 1.13?
>
> > FYI what I do is:
>
> > bzr init-repo .
> > bzr co sftp://blah.com/trunk
> > bzr co sftp://blah.com/other
>
> > (where other is a branch off trunk)
>
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
>
>
> Out of curiosity, what version is the server?
>
> I've seen some reports that 1.13 with a 1.12 server is slower, but that
> regression has since been fixed, and the change will be available in
> 1.14. Though if you can upgrade the server to 1.13, you would have an
> *even better* result already. (We optimized some things for 1.13 <=>
> 1.13, and didn't realize it slowed certain things down for 1.13 <=> 1.12.)
It seems to me that shouldn't matter for sftp:// though, as we're not
invoking the bzr server in that case.

Cheers,

Jelmer